Quotes About Consequence

Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.

something always leads to something else.

time in the equation. They had a lot to lose.

Busy day and I'm not getting any younger. And Irene Cramer's not getting any older. And somebody has to answer for that.

Something always leads to something else. - John Puller

Robie slept soundly after killing five men.

Every time humans discovered a new resource, or technique for using mass and energy, one side effect has always been pollution. Why should the information age be any different from those of coal, petroleum, or the atom?

I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't. I don't understand. Why not? I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did... But you're the king. That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that. Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no." "Why?" Beldin asked bluntly. "We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?

Any fool can raise an army, but you start running into trouble around suppertime.

Power is power, Garion. The results are the same. You don't have to hurt people if you don't want to.

An arrow in the knee." The count shrugged. "The result of an old disagreement—long since forgotten.

Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.

You Can't Unring a Bell.

Puede ser apropiado hacer algo temible sin pensarlo, pero no cuando lo temible es el propio hecho de no pensar

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of FATE, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance, or on the turning of a street, or on somebody else's turning of a street, or on somebody else's doing of something else in Downing Street or in Timbuctoo, now or a thousand years ago.

have recovered the shock of losing him. It was his counsel had brought about this marriage, and all that was to ensue from it. And why was it?

What's done cannot be undone.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

What's done, is done

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.